#computer math

What it does is pretty simple:

It creates 100 random letters -> Extracts the letters right next to the vowels (qqaqq -> qaq) -> Writes these out on the console -> Randomizes how these "words" are ordered -> Combines them with their neighbors (qaq vev -> qaqvev) -> And writes these out on the screen again.

The program also allows you to input a "phrase", instead of relying on randomized letters.

Basically? It's a way to maybe get a brain-starter on "what the fuck do I name this guy?", but is utterly useless at actually coming up with names.

1.9.17 // [1/100 days of productivity] it's 2017 and today was our first day back to school this year. i've decided to participate in the 100 days of productivity challenge as a sort of new years goal! wish me luck. here are today's notes for computer science. i'm rewriting everything because finals actually start tomorrow...

Basically, it works by randomly giving items various “stat boosts”, and there’s no way to tell it to give the item “one type” of stat-boost.

In practice, what this means is that (if you want a good item) you’re going to have to spend time just constantly refreshing the vendor’s inventory in the hopes that something good will spawn.

This has frustrated me to no end. Unfortunately, Divinity 2′s crafting-system is not up to the challenge of trying to compensate for it, since crafted items... are shit.

So, yesterday (after having accidentally stumbled across it in the mod-creator) I figured out how to limit certain “stat-boosts” from spawning on items. Gleeful at the prospect of saving future-me a horrible headache, I set to work on at least removing the “junk” stat-boosts.

Turns out, there’s a lot of these, so I was clicking my way through a lot of stuff. But since my opinion on “junk” might differ from others’, I was clever enough to create several smaller mods that could work together to give me the effect I was looking for (and which I could then publish for the public).

Unfortunately, upon starting the game and activating the mods... the game crashed.

Turns out, there seems to be some kind of “necessary amount” of “stat-boosts” for the game to choose from. As in, let’s say the game wanted to pick from 20 different stat-boosts. If the base game has 50 stat-boosts, you won’t have to worry about removing the first 30, but once you’ve done that you’ll reach a hard-cap of sorts and going any further will cause the game to just crash.

What this means in practice is that some of the ideas I built mods around are never going to work, and that I should probably be wary even of the ones that do work (since I don’t know if the game usually demands 20, but will on random occasions demand 21).

As I was steeling myself however, I kind of just stood still and sighed for a bit. So she stopped to wait for me.

And then she just... patiently lead me across the bridge, lighting every pillar of the way.